Abramowitz described an early success story of the project, a 17-year-old girl living with her grandmother.

“Her grandmother didn’t have the papers for guardianship, but she needed to be emancipated because she was getting ready to go to college. She needed the contract, grants, things like that to go to school. And, it was not that difficult for her to find an attorney,” he said.

The 2018 Florida legislative session starts in January.

Ryan Benk can be reached atrbenk@wjct.org, at (904) 358 6319 or on Twitter at @RyanMichaelBenk.